Raspberry Pis and Lego are a match made in DIY heaven. While Raspberry Pi projects usually utilize 3D-printed components to protect the board from the elements, sometimes you can't go wrong with the colorful blocks. So, here are a handful of projects that combine the two in a pleasing arrangement of DIY goodness.

Every so often, you hear tech enthusiasts claim it’s finally the year of Linux. But despite its high utility in server and production environments, the casual PC user base has sidelined Linux for years, and for good reason. After all, the terminal-heavy nature of Linux distros makes them seem a lot more complex than they actually are. Back in the day, Linux operating systems were notorious for their compatibility issues with consumer-grade apps. Factor in the extra effort needed to get accustomed to a new OS, and it’s no surprise that the average user stays away from Linux.

Trying to record your gameplay without losing some performance can be a challenge if you don't currently have the best gaming PC on the market. While it's almost impossible to ensure you don't lose any FPS while recording, there are some ways in which you can record your games at higher settings while losing as little performance as possible.

Experimenting with different distros and container projects is the biggest draw of home labs. But over time, you might get burned out by manually installing packages and libraries on your virtual machines whenever you want to work on a new project.

A successful and effective project management relies on clear communication, organized tracking, and the ability to quickly identify potential roadblocks. While there is no shortage of project management tools out there, many prefer Excel due to its familiar setup and flexibility. One of Excel's most underrated features for project management is conditional formatting. This simple tool allows you to visually represent project data, keep tasks on track, and see which ones are falling behind.

Alienware makes some of the best gaming monitors that you can buy in 2025. This model here is another top choice that we'd recommend, especially if you're on a tight budget. For a limited time, you can score the Alienware AW2724D for a fantastic price, with a discount that knocks 22% off, dropping it down to just $180.

Like a lot of people, my gaming youth was marked mostly by console games, whether they were handheld or home consoles. However, long before I built my first gaming PC, there was a very formative time I had playing games on a computer that required nothing but an internet connection.

You thought your common aquarium-style PC gaming setup was cool? Check out this absolute unit of an immersive system. Built for World of Tanks, one of the most popular classic warfare simulation games, 马鹿blyatdesigned one of the most incredible setups I've witnessed. The team is renowned for its physical simulation projects and this is certainly no exception. So, what's so special about this tank simulator? It's a multi-crew setup with a full tank build, simulated main barrel firing with soda bottles, and incredible feedback through audio and movement.

Well, it's that time of the month again: Patch Tuesday. Every second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft unleashes a wave of updates for all of its supported Windows systems. And while this month wasn't incredibly exciting, there are some interesting tidbits to enjoy.

Cloud storage is a great way to keep files synced and accessible across different devices. But with so many hardware manufacturers and companies offering their own cloud services, you may find that your online storage is scattered across different accounts. Is there a way that you can access them through a single hub?

On Tuesday, US District Court of Delaware judge Stephanos Bibas issued a partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, a legal AI startup.  Filed in 2020, it’s one of the first cases that will deal with the legality of AI tools and how they are trained, often using copyrighted data scraped from somewhere else without license or permission.Similar lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI giants are currently winding their way through the courts, and they could come down to similar questions about whether or not the AI tools can claim a “fair use” defense of using copyrighted material.However, as the judge noted, this case involved “non-generative” AI, not a generative AI tool like an LLM. Ross shut down in 2021, calling the lawsuit “spurious” but saying it was unable to raise enough funding to keep going while caught up in a legal battle.As reported previously by Wired, today Judge Bibas wrote in his decision, “None of Ross’s possible defenses holds water” against accusations of copyright infringement, and ultimately rejected Ross’s fair-use defense, relying heavily on the factor of how Ross’s use of copyrighted material affected the market for the original work’s value by building a direct competitor. Thomson Reuters sued over Ross’s use of its Westlaw search engine. Westlaw indexes a good deal of material that is not copyrightable (like legal decisions) but also intersperses it with its own content. For instance, Westlaw headnotes — which are summaries of points of law written by human editors — are a signature feature meant to make the very expensive Westlaw subscription attractive to lawyers.In building a legal research search engine, Ross turned the annotations and headnotes “into numerical data about the relationships among legal words to feed into its AI,” wrote Bibas. The ruling describes how, after Thomson Reuters rejected its attempt to license Westlaw’s content, Ross turned to another company, LegalEase, and purchased 25,000 Bulk Memos of questions and answers written by lawyers using the Westlaw headnotes that it used for training data.Ross CEO Andrew Arruda claimed the Westlaw data was “added noise” and that its tool “aims to recognize and extract answers directly from the law using machine learning.” However, after having “compared how similar each of the 2,830 Bulk Memo questions, headnotes, and judicial opinions are, one by one,” the judge said the evidence of actual copying was “so obvious that no reasonable jury could find otherwise.”

We're over a month into the new year, 2025 is off to the races, and players around the world will start to have a whole new swath of games to play. Whether they're new releases to kick off the year, or they're new pick-ups from the holiday season, surely there will be a new, interesting crop of games at the top of Steam's charts, right?